Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

If you can't build with them don't chill with them.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

Dreams do not bear fruits unless the weather conditions are favourable. Your positive mentality makes your dreams germinate

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

What you shouldn't be must not be allowed to stand on the way of whom you can become.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.